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Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property. [ 1 ] The term includes property damage , such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any property without permission of the owner.
According to Wikipedia:Vandalism, vandalism is "editing (or other behavior) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free encyclopedia, in a variety of languages, presenting the sum of all human knowledge." This definition is excessively broad, even for the purposes of broad policy coverage.
If the vandalism in question is "sneaky vandalism", is being committed by a person who was blocked under a prior account or IP address, or requires in-depth and direct knowledge of a prior problem, consider taking the report to the incidents noticeboard instead. There are hundreds of Wikipedia administrators, and many of them are unfamiliar ...
Wikipedia contributors use the term "vandalism" to refer to changes which are intentionally unconstructive. Such changes may be removal of useful content, addition of nonsense, malicious code or deliberate introduction of factual errors. Vandalism should be removed when found, as it makes articles unhelpful to readers.
A change was just made to the definition of vandalism that seems overly expansive. Vandalism has previously defined as any unquestionably bad-faith change to the encyclopedia. The change made by {User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] now appears to redefine vandalism as any change that compromises the content of the encylopedia, whether intended or unintended.
The most well-known bot that fights vandalism is ClueBot NG. The bot was created by Wikipedia users Christopher Breneman and Naomi Amethyst in 2010 (succeeding the original ClueBot created in 2007; NG stands for Next Generation) [9] and uses machine learning and Bayesian statistics to determine if an edit is vandalism.
On Wikipedia, vandalism in simple terms is defined as deliberate malicious editing.There are many different ways in which Wikipedia is vandalized. These include additions, removals, and modifications that cause intentional harm to the content of the encyclopedia.
Because undetected vandalism is, by definition, undetected, it is impossible to know how much there is. A fairly recent essay points out that vandalism to low-traffic pages often lasts for days; if only that were the extent of the problem! Wikipedia's records page paints a much more concerning picture. As of November 2024, the longest time that ...